2022 The (ab)Use of Beauty

Installation view at Zebrastraat, Ghent. Seven printed and framed photographs of different sizes (120x60cm - 70x40cm - 15x30cm), white textile, metal, text, video projection (20min), voice recording (20min)

The (ab)Use of Beauty (2022) - Chapter One

The (ab)Use of Beauty is a work consisting of images and text. The work takes a critical look at the desire for beauty in life and the use of aesthetics in photographic imagery. Within the visual context of having lived in the French Alps, the work questions the photographically limited representation of reality, approaching the written text as the missing image.

The (ab)Use of Beauty is the first chapter of a photo-text book in creation.